Not the end of Sanjaya, yet

Haley Scarnato is going home this week. Finally.

And ... hooray, hooray! Sanjaya is (once again) NOT in the bottom three. HAHAHAHA!!!

I'm really enjoying this season's show purely because it is so much FUN seeing Sanjaya trying to pull off the biggest joke of all on the American Idol.

Yeah ... all those anti-Sanjaya viewers can continue to be nasty to that boy but boy oh boy - maybe by the end of this show, Sanjaya is the one having the last laugh.

And he don't even have to be the last one standing to do that.

Getting real with American Idol

I am NOT at all surprised that Sanjaya Malakar is still in the running for the American Idol 2007 title.

Well, this is after all the American IDOL contest, right?

And the Americans have their own perception of what an entertainment idol should be like and in my opinion, heheh ... I have lots of THEM, don't I? And here is the cue to switch off if you don't want to hear about them :-)

Now, (in my opinion) in a show like American Idol, it is of utmost importance that the candidate must be likable enough for the general American public who watches the show to vote him/her in. Week after week. If he or she so happens to be blessed with great vocals, well, that is an ADDED bonus then, isn't it?

Why? Because this is not the American GREAT SINGING TALENT contest, geddit?

And that's what's keeping me glued to this show. See, I don't normally watch TV as you well know, but I thoroughly enjoyed the American Idol because it's pretty interesting to watch how the Americans define "idol". Last year's winner Taylor Hicks was a clear example. And this year, we have Sanjaya to show us again what works (and doesn't work!) for the viewers.

Again, looking at the judges this season, I get the feeling they are getting bored with the contest. Perhaps some of those who have managed to survive the voting process so far was a tad disappointing to them. Perhaps the judges have certain standards they'd like to promote as an "American Idol" and some of those who have survived so far gave them the creeps!

I don't see anything wrong with Sanjaya Malakar eventually making it into the top 5. Why, if the American viewers believe that he personifies all that deserves to be idolised as an American, what is wrong with that?

Sanjaya has the kind of boyish all-American charm reminiscent of decades gone by and coupled with the fact that his looks is so far-off from the standard poster-boy image of a blonde all-American boy makes it all the more real for a non-American viewer like me.

I think that's a great way of saying that the NEW all-American boy or girl can be represented by any American from whatever ethnic background. It defines the great American Dream.

So, in this sense, I think Simon has got the concept of American Idol wrong.

Oh, I forgot. He is after all a British, isn't he?

Thumbs down to American Idol because Americans don't think like the British?